Clifford Tobin DeYoung (born February 12, 1946 According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com ) is an American actor and musician.
DeYoung was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended California State University.
Prior to his acting career, he was the lead singer of the sixties rock group Clear Light, which played with The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin. After the band broke up, he starred in the Broadway production of Hair and the Tony Award-winning Sticks and Bones. After four years in New York, he moved back to California to star in the TV movie Sunshine (1973) and the short-lived television series based on it. His song "My Sweet Lady" from the film reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Chart in 1974.
Since then, DeYoung has made more than eighty films and television series, including The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977), Centennial (1978), the 1981 sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment, where he played two characters and sang a duet with himself. Recent projects include the films Suicide Kings (1997) and Last Flight Out (2004).
He guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Vortex". In 2007, he briefly guest stared as Amber Ashby's kidnapper, John Bonacheck on The Young and the Restless.
